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Morgan Stanley [MS
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But in the Official Funny Business Contest for Best New Name for the venture, we continue to receive great suggestions.
Submit yours before the end of the market day tomorrow, we will vote Thursday, and the winner gets a CNBC cap.
Funny Business Comments: |
Some of the latest entries:
From Dave Coyle, "MORE BLARNEY", "Simply more brokers talking." (Jeff Jacobs also submitted this--he has more below)
From Larry Rutter, "ORGAN BARN", "They'll need to do something to stay profitable."
From Henry Schwarz, "CITI-MORG"
From Smith Barney employee SP just "MORGUE", "Since that's where these companies are ending up anyway."
And from Bernie Tomsa, a plethora of suggestions:
"NUNCAN STANDME"
"SMUGAN SMARMEY"
"THE OPERATIONS FORMERLY KNOWN AS MORGAN STANLEY"
"TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT"
And more from Jeff Jacobs:
"BARNEY MORGANNOSAURUX REX" — (Let's sing, "I love me and you love who, makes their TARP cash vanish too….")
"S'MORGASM"
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